With recent large-scale cyber attacks signaling a growing front in destructive threats and business impact, a new midyear report from iDefense, part of Accenture Security, reveals how threat actors are continuing to evolve their ability to avoid detection.
The 2017 Cyber Threatscape Report...

A cybersecurity operation run out of the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) here has uncovered more than 9,000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites in the Asean region, including government portals.
Interpol says investigations are ongoing.

Kaspersky Lab experts have noted an emerging trend – a growth in the number of attacks using encryption. Such attacks are highly effective due to the difficulty in identifying them amongst the overall flow of clean requests. Recently, the company encountered yet more evidence of this trend – an...

A new DDoS attack method called BlackNurse has been discovered by security researchers, which allows hackers to launch large-scale attacks with less effort than is required for traditional DDoS attacks. BlackNurse also provides attackers with the ability to take down severs and firewalls with...

Security researchers discovers IRCTelnet malware
A new malware family written by what appears to be an experienced coder is aiming for Linux-based IoT devices, with the main purpose of adding those devices to a botnet and carrying out DDoS attacks.
Discovered by security researcher...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was forced to take its census website offline overnight after suffering several DDoS attacks.
The five-yearly census suffered three attacks during Tuesday local time and then after 7.30pm was hit by a major fourth barrage, which it said coincided with a...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that are carried out by a botnet (a network of compromised computers) to overwhelm the processing power of the victim computer, effectively taking it out of commission, have been around for a while.
Peaking in 2000 with high profile attacks against...

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